Not directly related to fvwm hehe, but just in case anyone else knows a solution to this problem.
I can’t see the xsm controls window at all. If I start it manually, the session selection window pops up, I press the “Default/Fail safe” button, and the terminal spits this:
$ xsm
Warning: Cannot convert string "12x24" to type FontStruct
Nice, the session window hides, and the control window does not appear, so, I can’t save checkpoints or anything, and I never get additional sessions in the list, I can only press the default button. The others are blurred.
Additionally, on that list only the string “chooseSessionListWidget” appears, if I click it, xsm segfaults and I get back to console. So, only the “Cancel” and “Default/Fail safe” buttons work ok.
Yes, I know. I was just wondering why it behaves in such a bad way, and if there is a cure for that illness. The “bunch” of session managers is really composed by gnome-session and ksmserver. The rest of things (xsm, xlsession -or something like that, and rox-session) are not proper sm’s. Xfce4-session kind of could be defined like one, I think, but it locks the screen, and puts itself over fvwm. I can see how fvwm loads, and the sm then puts over it. I know fvwm is working behind cause I can use the bindings to navigate the menus (which appear over the blue-ish screen that the sm puts in front of fvwm).
Ksmserver completely ignore the dcop calls unless kdeinit is running, which is, basically, the same that running kde with KDEWM=“fvwm”.
My problem with gnome-session is about convictions. I just can’t understand this (random image taken from google):
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
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I downloaded the source for gnome-session-1.5, but it is also tied to gnome-desktop, with all that that involves (gnome-vfs, mount stuff, nautilus…). Too much stuff to draw a little window and do session management, it doesn’t matter how sophisticated it is.
Not that I am one of those persons that are affraid of having toolkits installed, I don’t care about that, and will surely use gnome-session, since really there is nothing else around. But I can’t understand why there is the need to tie such a simple application to such heavy dependencies.
I saw that article and read it several times in the last couple of years. A nice one. Thanks, Thomas.
The problem is with how applications declare themselves as the SESSION_LEADER to the session manager – given that xsm is old and most newer applications use a differing approach, it’s no wonder xsm croaks at the bit.
Because it’s GNOME and requires everything under the sun (it’s doing more than being just a session manager, anyway). This is the price you pay if you want such a feature.
